The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-25

of the dependent pension bill was
strictly in the line of duty, but he does
not explain how he could approve the
Mexican pension bill, which contained
precisely the same principle.
A GREAT many newspapers announce,
with visible grin, that at the recent
municipal elections in Kansas the
ladies voted exactly as their husbands
did. Further investigation may show
that the men voted exactly as their
wives did.-St Paul Pioneer Press.
THE New York Times (mugwump)
does not agree with Mr.. Carlisle that
the revenue must be reduced by re-
ducing the tariff and opening this
country to flood of " cheap and nasty T"
English goods, to the detriment, if not
the destruction, of our own industries.
IT appears that the recent murder of
young Editor Gambril in Mississippi
has caused sensation more deep and
painful than the ordinary street ARRAY.
The fact is recognized that the EDITORS
ardent fight for temperance and against
"rings" was the reason for his I'M
timely taking off.
THERE is difference between parties
as to integrity and as to competence
for the responsibilities of government.
The shrinking citizen, who pretends
that both are alike bad, not only SLAM
ders millions of worthier Americans
than himself but shows that he is pitt
fully ignorant of current history
Tribune.
THE story of Ireland is best told by
the following figures, furnished by Null
hall, one of the most reliable statisti-
clans of the day. He says that during
Victoria's reign there have died of
starvation in Ireland 1855 900 people,
there have been evicted for non-payment
of rent 1864 900, and there have emf
grated 4,lS5,000.
Mr.. POwDERLY has been uttering
some more brave words in secret
circular. This time they are directed
against anarchists and socialists, whom
he classes among the enemies of the
knights of Labor. But every time Mr..
Powderly has an opportunity to sue
cumb to these socialists he takes ad-
vantage of it.-Ne,D York Mail.
THE Macon (Ga.) Telegraph assures
its readers that the principle of pro-
lection in this country is res adjudi-
cato." 1t has come to stay. 1t also
lays down the self-evident fact that.
whether the southern people like it OF
not, necessity of war has created new
South, in which labor can only be had
for the hiring, and that this being the
case, it will be well for the South to
assimilate to northern conditions as
quickly as possible.
WHAT are the mugwumps going to
do? They have gone into the demo.
cratic party. They are the serfs of the
democratic organization. They are
opposing Senator Sherman almost as
bitterly and quite as earnestly as they
attack Blaine. This is true of the New
York Times, New York Herald and
George William Curtis. They are
| Soho SiiiiiiiOlluS anu lHcre is barely
a glimmer left to show the dark mud.
road by which they disappeared Gin
cinnoh Commercial Gazette.
WHEN weakened republican
paper editorially remarks that it would
be great mistake for the party tc
nominate Mr.. Blaine next year the
democratic organs seize upon the state
ment with avidity, and the unanimity
with which they endorse the remark is
beautiful to gaze upon. Brethren, sc
long as the democratic organ holds the
opinion that the republicans will make
mistake by nominating Blaine vol
may rest assured that the party will
commit blunder by not nominating
him.-NOrriStO,0n Herald.
GENERAL 7. M. LOGAN, a promi
nent railroad man of Virginia, says Of
the effect of the interstate commerce
law on the railroads: 1.-THE effect Of
the law has not yet begun to show or
the earnings of the railroads. From
what study / have given the matter
have concluded that there will be nc
direct interference with the railroad
earnings Whatever change there ma,
be in that direction will come gradually
from the unsettling of the business O.
the entire country. AS business is un
settled it will naturally affect the railroad
business, and so cause large injury"
EVER since the centuries were youns
there have been Henry Georges anc
DR.. McGlynns, born with an antipath,
to poverty, who have gone about ped
ding this wind-cure from platform t,
printing-oflice. None of them that W,
have read of have ever neglected t,
pass the hat pretty often, and first ant
last good many hundreds and thou
sands of them have succeeded in driv
ing poverty from their own pockets
and living upon the fat of the Ian,
without soiling their hands. So ia
they have been success, but povert,
hasn't been abolished. The fact stand
now, just as it did when Adam and Ev,
were gardening, that the only cure TO
poverty is work. 1t was written Ion!
ago that man should earn his bread b,
the sweat of his brow, and the deere,
hasn't been amended up to date
Manchester Mirror and Farmer.
THE people of this community begir
to understand that the whole work o
the lOno-haul rule ia To emf down th,